In conversation with Liam Kennedy, Editorial Director, IPE
In this episode of IPE’s Leaders in Investment, Simon Pilcher, CEO of USS Investment Management, asset manager for the UK’s £77bn Universities Superannuation Scheme discusses the fund’s role as a universal owner, the advantages of running an open DB scheme and, successfully moving the scheme from a deficit position to a £10bn+ surplus.
The discussion covers the fund’s high allocation to private markets and significant in-house investment capability which supports that; their decision to right-size investment risk by increasing exposure to rates and to inflation and their goal for its portfolio to be net carbon zero by 2050 or earlier.
“We need to get governments and regulators to make it not only financially viable for people to change, but also easy for people to change. Let’s make it easy for people to decarbonise.”
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